US Patent Issued to SONY on Feb. 4 for "Mobile telecommunications system transmission and reception points and methods for switching transmission and reception points between active and inactive states" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,663, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mobile telecommunications system transmission and reception points and methods for switching transmission and reception points between active and inactive states" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile telecommunications system transmission and reception point has circuitry configured to receive a status indicator, and to switch between an active state and an inactive state in response to the received status indicator."

The patent was filed on Nov. 16, 2020, und...